My neighbour phoned: 'My sheep have been shorn and please come and get the wool today, because it's in the way.' I was shocked, because I hadn't finished spinning last year's wool. That was 22 fleeces! Fortunately it was a bit less this year.The sheep were still in their stable and the night before a couple of lambs had been born. Every year they are so cute. Hier een tweeling met hun moeder.Even verderop stonden vijf jongedames. Hun wol zal vast heel mooi zijn. Wat lijken pas geschoren schapen toch enorm groot!

My fabulous sweater is nearly finished. The last sleeve is getting on nicely.It has to be, because I cast on a few new things again. This week I had a bad attack of starteritis. Last Tuesday I wanted to go to the SnB knitting cafe and there I can't knit something too complicated. Therefore I started a nice simple straight sock. Well, two socks at once on a circular needle, which not everybody considered to be so simple.And then I made a sample with the very blue wool which I span a while ago. I had no idea what to make with it, because it was a bit too blue to my liking. Fortunately I had some thin handspun dark blue merino in my stash. With the two yarns used together the result rather pleases me more than expected, so now I want to knit on with that. But first I must finish the fabulous sweater.